A current refrain in patent policy discourse is that “overly-broad” patents of “dubious validity” retard innovation. We … scope and/or validity harm innovation. The Selden automobile patent is alleged to have been such a patent. We review the … and validity of Selden’s patent claims, there is no evidence that innovation was retarded. We show that Henry Ford and …

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, all countries having patent systems required patentable inventions to be … nonobvious. The nonobviousness requirement is considered to be so central to patent policy that it has frequently been called the … more unabashedly normative component, which might facilitate innovation and progress in law …

This chapter summarizes historical evidence on the link between patent laws and innovation. Earlier historical analyses … have emphasized the importance of patent laws in encouraging innovation. Data on exhibits at international technology fairs … that non-patent mechanisms may play an important role in encouraging innovation. They also show that inventors’ dependency …

, is their call for a more responsible behaviour of patent owners in the exercise of their patent rights. In light of the … the current patent system, there is a need to reconceptualize patent rights, all the more so in the life sciences area. A … patent can no longer be viewed as a title giving (almost) complete freedom to exclude others from use, but rather as a …

patenting decisions are unresponsive to differences in patent laws. Cross-section evidence suggests that high-quality and urban …

This paper examines the implications of Open Source License (OSL) selection on software innovation, and suggests how …

software patents. It then reviews the traditional innovation process in the financial services industries, and predicts how the … established firms that had eschewed patents were suddenly confronted with numerous patent headaches; and (2) the U.S. software … significant increases in financial innovation, but rather in the facilitation of new firm entry (e.g., venture capital …

How does patent enforcement affect subsequent innovation? I exploit patent infringement litigation in the United States … to analyze the effect of patent enforcement on cumulative innovation. The results imply that subsequent innovation … patent and reductions in asymmetric information are particular driver of the increase in follow-on innovation. Although there …

critiquing current patent practice implicitly assumes that the patent functions as a form of technical document ….Careful consideration of the artifices by which a new patent is staged reveals parallels to the known staging of technical papers, including … strength. In each situation, assertions about, respectively, science or innovation become coherent facts only if subsequent …

determining patentable subject matter under the American Patent Act, is used as a starting point for a brief review of historical …, philosophical, and cultural influences on subject matter questions in both patent and copyright law. The article suggests that … patent and copyright law jurisprudence was constructed initially by the Court with explicit attention to the relationship …